Tube Straightener With the increasing tendency for factors to buy
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steel tubing in coils, a simple means for manipulating the material into straight lengths is necessary and Pickavant has introduced an improvement on an old idea. A hard-wood block shaped to fit in a bench vice is provided with four accurately machined holes to accommodate ain., in., ,in. and tin, o.d. tubing. Each hole has a taper lead.
The end of a piece of coiled tubing is simply pushed through a hole of corresponding diameter and then firmly pulled through the other side until a sufficient length has been straightened. The tube can then be cut off with a Hack-saw using the end face of the straightening block as a guide Made by: J. W. Pickavant and Co. Ltd., Whitmore Street, Birmingham 18.